The World in Spatial Terms Video Questions
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Questions from video. Be sure to sign your entry and put a link back to this page on it. Remember you must provide the name of the video and an EXTERNAL web source (use Chicago Advanced format for web source).
1. What is the main purpose of geography and geographers?
2. What is the nature of a spatial relationship? How do geographers study these relationships?
3. Where is the Ring of Fire? What consistent activity can by found in the region?
5. Why do we study the relationship between people and the world in which they live?
6. What is the most common way to represent geographical information? Why?
7. What is aerial photography? How does it help find basic human and physical patterns?
8. What is a database? Provide an example as it relates to geography.
9. What is GIS? Provide a concrete example of how it is used.
10. How does GIS help people identify locations around the world?
11. What is the difference between a mental map and a sketch map?
12. What information can be derived from a distribution map?
13. How did the invention of the chronometer affect the history of navigation and exploration?
14. Why do geographers use map projections?
15. Who was Karl Mollweide? What did he do?
16. Why is a Mercator projection map not considered to be accurate?
17. Why is the Winkel Tripel projection map often used by map publishers?
